The following is a summary of the 1988–89 season of competitive football in Switzerland.
Nationalliga A
Qualification phase
Championship group The first eight teams of the qualification phase competed in the Championship round. The teams took half of the points (rounded up to complete units) gained in the qualification as bonus with them.
Nationalliga B Qualification phase Group East
Group East
Promotion/relegation round Group A
Group B
Relegation round NLB/1. Liga The last six teams in each of the two qualification phase groups competed in two relegation groups against relegation to the 1. Liga 1991–92. There was to be one direct relegation in each group, plus a play-out against relegation between both second last placed teams.
Group A
Group B
Relegation play-out
FC Chur won 3–1 on aggregate and FC Biel-Bienne were relegated to 1989–90 1. Liga.
1. Liga
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Promotion play-off Qualification round
FC Thun win 3–1 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
FC Fribourg win 5–3 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
FC Zug win 6–4 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
Brüttisellen win 1–0 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
Final round
FC Fribourg win 3–2 on aggregate and are promoted to 1989–90 Nationalliga B.
FC Zug win 4–1 on aggregate and are promoted to 1989–90 Nationalliga B.
Decider for third place The play-off for the third promotion place was played on 24 June 1989 in Burgdorf.
FC Brüttisellen win after penalty shoot-out and are promoted to 1989–90 Nationalliga B
Decider for championship The play-off for the championship was played on 24 June 1989.
FC Zug win and are declared 1.Liga champions.
Relegation play-out First round The first play-out against relegation was played on 4 June in Kilchberg.
FC Wohlen win and Einsiedeln continue to the final.
The second play-out against relegation was played on 4 June in Echallens.
FC Boudry win and FC Stade Lausanne continue to the final.
Final round The play-out against relegation was played on 11 and 18 June 1989.
Einsiedeln win 4–3 on aggregate. FC Stade Lausanne are relegated to 2. Liga.
Swiss Cup
Early rounds The routes of the finalists to the final, played on 15 May 1989 at the Wankdorf in Bern: Round 3
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"| 3 September 1988
Round 4
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"| 13 November 1988
Round 5
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"| 11 March 1989
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"| 12 March 1989
Quarter-finals
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"| 12 April 1989
Semi-finals
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"| 18 April 1989
Final
Swiss Clubs in Europe Xamax as 1987–88 Nationalliga A champions: 1988–89 European Cup Grasshopper Club as 1987–88 Swiss Cup winners: 1988–89 Cup Winners' Cup and entered 1988 Intertoto Cup Servette as league second placed team: 1988–89 UEFA Cup Aarau as league third placed team: 1988–89 UEFA Cup and entered 1988 Intertoto Cup Luzern: entered 1988 Intertoto Cup Young Boys: entered 1988 Intertoto Cup
Xamax European Cup
First round
3–3 on aggregate; Neuchâtel Xamax won on penalties.
Second round
Galatasaray won 5–3 on aggregate.
Grasshopper Club Cup Winners' Cup
First round
Eintracht Frankfurt won 1–0 on aggregate.
Intertoto Cup
Group 9
Servette UEFA Cup
First round
Servette won 1–0 on aggregate.
Second round
Groningen won 3–1 on aggregate.
Aarau UEFA Cup
First round
Lokomotive Leipzig won 7–0 on aggregate.
Intertoto Cup
Group 2
Young Boys Intertoto Cup
Group 5
Luzern Intertoto Cup
Group 6
References
Sources Switzerland 1988–89 at RSSSF Cup finals at Fussball-Schweiz Intertoto history at Pawel Mogielnicki's Page